A new earthquake thread? May as well. . .

[ShinShinKid]

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The ever-changing geology of Yellowstone National Park is melting an asphalt road, closing off access to several popular geysers and other thermal features at the height of tourist season....

Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-a ... z375yWsVDY

We've also had some earthquakes down here on the AZ-NM border...doesn't happen very often down here, the USGS put down some sensors....

[conniption]

8/24/2014 -- Major Unrest underway -- Large 7.0M earthquake strikes Peru -- 6.0M hits California

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh247w2ozWM

Published on Aug 24, 2014

Full website post here, plus link to monitor earthquakes nationally and internationally: http://dutchsinse.tatoott1009.com/824...____
A large 7.0M earthquake has struck Peru, inland along the Andes mountains. This comes on top of the previous activity in California today, as well as the 6.7 magnitude in Chile yesterday.
Overall, seismic unrest is showing globally, including the eruption in Iceland -- now is a good time to dust off those earthquake preparedness plans.
Check the links above for my near term United States earthquake forecast.

[seemslikeadream]

Sunday Special: Quakes, Dallas, and Damn Futuring
Posted on August 24, 2014 by George Ure
Damn, I hate futuring on mornings like this.

One of our SF area readers felt that 6.0 quake in the Napa country this morning:

Hi George!

A little wake up call from Mother Nature this morning. Felt like being in a washing machine down here on the SF peninsula. A good reminder to all to be prepped!

Good news – and bad – it was something that Grady had called from our http://www.nostracodeus.com data…
“A week ago we told you Earthquakes are coming. Now they are here. With the recent solar activity, we already seeing quakes of larger magnitude around the planet. Expect more. And since writing this, the headlined the San Francisco has occurred. Note also the beginning of volcanic activity under the ice in Iceland. Aircraft are being warned to avoid the area. There will be more, including aftershocks in the Bay area of San Francisco.”

And like that’s not enough? Chris over at the National Dream Center which is now using some of the linguistic analysis tools Grady developed for Nostracodeus (he calls ‘em DreamBots because he uses the tool to read language change of predictive dreams) – has come up with four possible future-headlines that center on Dallas.

Go check out the report over here…

And then let me add one personal note/sense:

As you know Elaine and I are traveling in the Pacific Northwest. I notice that there has been some “chatter” on the net about a long-overdue 9+ earthquake up in this part of the world coming in October.

There is nothing “scientific” about this outlook, but if you look at Chris’ headline #3 on the National Dream Center site, you might properly wonder whether we’re getting some word/location confusion surrounding “the Dalles” (Oregon) [pronounced “dalls”] which is only one letter off from Dallas of Texas [“dall-us] ?

We also know that geomagnetic disturbances tend to cause markets to “run off the rails” so early next week, we shall pay strict attention to how markets behave in the face of all this change mode that has shown up rather quickly…

Toss in the Iceland volcano about to pop which could really freeze England this winter and you have the odds of massive global change going high… The volcano is under a glacier and if that melts quickly and goes into the Atlantic…oh, we don’t want to go there….just popcorn and brewskis for now….no, make that French toast and coffee…it’s early…

[82_28]

PNW is long, long, long, long overdue. I certainly hope it never happens, but something over a 7.0 would obliterate this city's delicate infrastructure. A shallow 9.0? Boy oh boy. The first jolt will likely throw you into the air with minutes of violent shaking. Our 6.7 we had in 2001 was deep, thus did not have any detectable aftershocks as far as human senses.

[justdrew]

wasn't there last week some story about some news channel/site falling for some earthquake-related hoax?

[82_28]

I really worry about the locks that keep the lakes from turning into tidelands.



They're about 100 years old. Fantastic engineering. But if the lakes empty into the Pacific -- this will be the place.

[justdrew]

USGS warns of hoax earthquake letter in Southern California
March 31, 2014|By Robert J. Lopez
Officials with the U.S. Geological Survey were advising Southern California residents Monday evening about a hoax letter that is warning of an "impending large quake."

The letter with the agency's logo was apparently being sent to residents in Orange County, urging them to be prepared for a large quake. "California is issuing a statewide warning," the letter states.

The agency advises residents to check the USGS website for the latest earthquake information.

The letter comes in the wake of Friday's 5.1 magnitude temblor centered in La Habra. The quake was felt across a large swath of Southern California. It caused modest damage to some homes, a rock slide in Carbon Canyon and broke some water mains.

An estimated 17 million people felt the quake, according to the USGS Did You Feel It? online reporting system.

[Pele'sDaughter]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/0 ... s-twitter/

Some Bay Area Residents Report Mysterious Flashes In The Sky During Napa Quake

MOUNTAIN VIEW (KPIX 5) – Several people called the KPIX 5 newsroom after Sunday morning’s magnitude 6.0 earthquake in Napa, reporting mysterious flashes of light in the sky. Witnesses said the strange phenomenon looked like lightning.

Similar flashes of light have been reported in earthquakes around the world, from Japan to Peru.

Friedemann Freund, a scientist with the SETI Institute in Mountain View, said the same thing happened during Sunday morning’s earthquake. And it wasn’t a transformer blowing up or UFOs.

“What they are, are a consequence of the stresses building up deep below the earth, seven miles like in the case of the Napa Valley earthquake,” Freund told KPIX 5.

He calls the phenomenon “earthquake lights,” the quick buildup of stress that causes an electric current to flow to the surface and burst through the earth. This typically happens before or during an earthquake.

Several North Bay witnesses contacted Freund at the SETI Institute about seeing several flashes around the time the Napa quake hit. They said there was one or two seconds between each one.

The bizarre flashes were documented all over Twitter. Minutes after the quake (edited out a couple of tweets).

Anne Belden also saw flashes of light that looked like lightning.

Freund has been studying the lights for 12 years. His team recently looked at 65 occurrences around the world over the last 400 years. Most seismologists don’t believe such things are real.

“There are things that we still don’t understand about the earth, so why not accept unusual, exceptionally unusual phenomena taking place? And the light outburst from the ground is one of them.”

[coffin_dodger]

not an earthquake per se, but an awesome display nonetheless.

[Luther Blissett]

[82_28]

That might explain those earthquake lights actually, depending on the chemicals and heat from the friction lighting it up. Kinda like how fireworks have different colors. I dunno.

[elfismiles]

Mammoth earthquake swarm is the largest in nearly a decade
Mammoth Mountain is one of the most seismically active volcanoes in California. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
By Rosanna Xia, Veronica Rocha contact the reporter

A swarm of quakes ranging from magnitude 1.0 to 3.8 began at Mammoth Lakes just before 5 a.m. Thursday
September 26, 2014, 3:16 PM

More than 600 small earthquakes have rattled the Mammoth Lakes region in less than 36 hours as ripple effects continued across one of the most seismically active volcanic regions in California, according to the U.S. Geological Survey..

The swarm of quakes — ranging from magnitude 1.0 to 3.8 — began just before 5 a.m. Thursday, according to the USGS.

“It doesn't mean that the volcano is any more active. It's an ongoing process in an volcanic system.”- David Shelly, USGS research seismologist

“This is one of the largest earthquake swarms we’ve seen in the past decade or so,” said David Shelly, a USGS research seismologist who has been studying the volcanic system near Mammoth Lakes. “We’ll be tracking it closely.”

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html

[seemslikeadream]

how about a volcano to go with that earthquake?

Japan's Mount Ontake volcanic eruption traps hikers

Mount Ontake erupted covering the area in a thick layer of ash


Mount Ontake spews ash and stones Watch

Several climbers have been injured in Japan after Mount Ontake volcano erupted, sending huge plumes of ash and stones into the sky.

Witnesses heard a "thunder-like" boom before the eruption at the 3,067m (10,120ft) peak, situated between Nagano and Gifu prefectures.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says the army will help rescue some 150 climbers sheltering in lodges near the summit.

Officials have warned residents within a 4km radius of the risk of debris.

Mount Ontake last erupted in 2007.

"It was like thunder," a woman who runs a lodge near the summit told Japanese broadcaster NHK.

[Pele'sDaughter]

Does anyone remember this?

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/geolog ... ourt-rules

Geologists Who Didn't Predict an Earthquake Aren't Killers, Italian Court Rules
Written by
Jason Koebler
Staff Writer

November 10, 2014 // 12:20 PM EST

A 2012 decision that rocked the scientific world was overturned today by an appeals court, according to Italy's Repubblica newspapers and confirmed by other Italian outlets. In that decision, six prominent geologists and one government worker were convicted of manslaughter for failing to notify the town of L'Aquila of a 2009 earthquake that killed at least 309 people. The scientists were originally sentenced to six years in prison and were to pay more than $10 million in damages.

On March 31, 2009, six days before the earthquake, the scientists had downplayed the likelihood of a major quake despite increased seismic activity in the area. The judge in the original case said that the scientists had made "an assessment of the risks that was incomplete, inept, unsuitable, and criminally mistaken."

The conviction was seen as a gross injustice: Earthquake predicting is notoriously difficult, and groups like the United States Geological Survey are constantly looking for ways to give communities even several seconds-advanced warning of seismic activity. Expecting the Italian scientists to predict the L'Aquila earthquake was ludicrous, according to a Nature editorial published soon after the conviction.

"Science has little political clout in Italy and the trial proceeded in an absence of informed public debate that would have been unthinkable in most European countries or in the United States," Nature editors wrote. "The verdict is perverse and the sentence ludicrous. Already some scientists have responded with warnings about the chilling effect on their ability to serve in public risk assessments."

Today, an appeals court agreed with Nature and much of the scientific community, acquitting the seven because of a "lack of evidence."

Earlier today, Giulio Selvaggi, one of the scientists, said that short-term earthquake prediction is an "impossibility." He noted that, at the time, L'Aquila was marked as being in an area having the "highest hazard" of a possible earthquake.

"With this belief I went to the meeting on March 31 [2009] and I would go there again today to state the same things," he said. "The conscience of having spoken with scientific rigour and with honesty does not attenuate, as in the past, my grief for the victims of this earthquake."

It appears that even in a country that has in recent years been notoriously terrible for science, being wrong as a scientist isn’t a crime.

[Perelandra]

^Good article, thanks.